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Read the passage and fill in the correct form of the word in brackets.
For years, "bogus" was a word the British read in newspaper (1)________ (head), but tended not to say. Its popularity among the teenagers of America changed that, although they didn't use it with its original meaning. It came from the Wild West. Its first appearance in print, in 1827, was in the Telegraph of Painesville, Ohio, where it meant a machine for making forgeries of coins. Soon, those "boguses" were turning out "bogus money" and the world had (2)_______ (go) a change from a noun to an adjective. By the end of the 19th century, it was well-established in Britain, applied to anything false, spurious or intentionally (3)_________ (lead). But the computer scientists of 1960s America, to whom we owe so much linguistic innovation, redefined it to mean "non-functional", "useless" or "unbelievable", especially in relation to calculations and (4)________ (engineer) ideas. This was followed by its (5)_________ (emerge) among Princeton and Yale (6)_________ (graduation) in the East Coast computer community. But it was the adoption of the word by American teenagers generally, who used it to mean simply "bad", that led to it being widely used by their (7)________ (part) in Britain. Interestingly, "bogus" is one of only about 1300 English words for which no (8)_________ (sense) origin has emerged. The 1827 "bogus" machine seems to have been named by an (9)________ (look) present at the time of its capture by police. But why that word? The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection with a New England word, "tantrobogus", meaning the devil. A rival US account sees it as a corruption of the name of a forger, called Borghese or Borges. (10)_________ (Else), it had been connected with the French word "bagasse", meaning the refuse from sugar-cane production.
For years, "bogus" was a word the British read in newspaper (1)________ (head), but tended not to say. Its popularity among the teenagers of America changed that, although they didn't use it with its original meaning. It came from the Wild West. Its first appearance in print, in 1827, was in the Telegraph of Painesville, Ohio, where it meant a machine for making forgeries of coins. Soon, those "boguses" were turning out "bogus money" and the world had (2)_______ (go) a change from a noun to an adjective. By the end of the 19th century, it was well-established in Britain, applied to anything false, spurious or intentionally (3)_________ (lead). But the computer scientists of 1960s America, to whom we owe so much linguistic innovation, redefined it to mean "non-functional", "useless" or "unbelievable", especially in relation to calculations and (4)________ (engineer) ideas. This was followed by its (5)_________ (emerge) among Princeton and Yale (6)_________ (graduation) in the East Coast computer community. But it was the adoption of the word by American teenagers generally, who used it to mean simply "bad", that led to it being widely used by their (7)________ (part) in Britain. Interestingly, "bogus" is one of only about 1300 English words for which no (8)_________ (sense) origin has emerged. The 1827 "bogus" machine seems to have been named by an (9)________ (look) present at the time of its capture by police. But why that word? The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a connection with a New England word, "tantrobogus", meaning the devil. A rival US account sees it as a corruption of the name of a forger, called Borghese or Borges. (10)_________ (Else), it had been connected with the French word "bagasse", meaning the refuse from sugar-cane production.
1. headlines
2. undergone
3. misleading
4. engineering
5. emergence
6. graduates
7. counterparts
8. sensible
9. onlooker
10. Elsewhere
2. undergone
3. misleading
4. engineering
5. emergence
6. graduates
7. counterparts
8. sensible
9. onlooker
10. Elsewhere
